Review: Drawings from the Louvre at The Morgan

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INSIDE:
Raleigh on Film; Bethune on Theatre;
Behrens on Music; Seckel on the Cultural Scene;
Trevens on Dance; Iwan on Faces of the Renaissance;
Potpourri of art at Hawthorne, Henoch & The Morgan;
DeVillez ‘Speaks Out’ on Art Roadies;
New Art Books; Short Fiction & Poetry;
Extensive Calendar of Events…and more!
ART TIMES
January/February 2012
Vol. 28 No. 4
Holiday Potpourri: Critiques: Lauren Sansaricq at
Hawthorne Fine Art; Janet Rickus at Gallery Henoch;
By RAYMOND J. STEINER
REPRESENTATIONAL ART IS
alive — and more, it seems, than well!
A trip to the Big Apple the day before
Thanksgiving brought me a cornucopia of goodies that far surpassed
by dropping in on any of the following
exhibits during “the season”.
Lauren Sansaricq, in her “Nature’s Poetry”* at Hawthorne Fine
Art , invites the viewer to a nostalgic
The Top of Kaaterskill Falls
Sunrise over the Hudson River, Early Autumn
the feast of turkey and trimmin’s set
before me on the following day. If you
are an aficionado of classical art — as
am I — then you will be well rewarded
journey into the past (as does the
entire Hawthorne gallery, in fact
— back to a time when John Cole
and his friends lured artists from all
over to the Hudson Valley/Catskill
Mountain Region to found what became known as “The Hudson River
School” of painters. If originally used
by the 19th-century neo-modernists
in New York City as a derogatory
term for those whose eyes were directed backward to the strictures of
academic “rules”, “The Hudson River
School” not only held its own but — as
the work of Sansaricq proves — has
endured, continuing to please viewers down to the present day. Indeed,
the paintings of Lauren Sansaricq
(though still in her early twenties)
might well be mistaken in style,
subject and motifs as contemporary
works of Cole, Church, et al. — as well
as easily taken for the “school’s” secondary generation of luminists (see,
e.g., her delicate use of diffused light
in Scene in the Catskills, View from
Sunset Rock, Sunrise in the Catskills
or Scene in the White Mountains with
Mt. Chocorua). This is beautiful work
and Sansaricq an exceptional artist
with surely a long and successful
career ahead of her.
* “Nature’s Poetry: The Paintings
of Lauren Sansaricq” (thru Jan
13): Hawthorne Fine Art, 74 East
79th St., Suite 3A-B, NYC (212)
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Letters
To the Publisher:
On behalf of the Fall for Art Committee, thank you for supporting Fall for
Art sponsored by Jewish Federation
of Ulster County the past 15 years.
Art Times has always provided publicity, advertising space and your
personal remarks prior and following Fall for Art are a pleasure to
read!
Your recent introduction to place
us on You Tube is indeed a wow! I
just love how you have highlighted
the event. This year was truly a challenge ... Wiltwyck Golf Club received
their power several days before the
show and the day before, Storm Lee
left many residents without power.
One of our artists Harriet Forman
Barrett from New Paltz had to cancel as well as many guests who were
not able to leave their homes. In
spite of nature, we still had a great
attendance and your video captures
the enthusiasm and importance of
sponsoring this event.
We are looking forward to celebrating the 16th year on Thursday,
September 6, 2012. Our goal is to
provide a venue where artists of the
Hudson Valley can show and sell
their work and support the good
work of Federation. All proceeds are
directed to Federation programs and
humanitarian projects. Sharing the
commitment and responsibility to
"repair the world" through Tikkun
Olam is what we are all about!
As we approach Thanksgiving we
Peeks and Piques!
I WAS WATCHING the news recently — on the evening of December 3rd, actually — and saw lines of
people who paid $30 a pop to stop in
at Christie’s to see Liz Taylor’s jewels that were going up for auction.
Their anticipation was obvious and
one could almost feel the TV screen
quivering with the bottled up excitement of the crowd. Interspersed with
stills and panned sweeps by equally
excited camera- and newsmen inside
the galleries of the movie queen’s
‘treasures’, one could catch quick
glimpses of flashy stones, necklaces,
brooches, and rings, all colorfully seducing the eye — a conglomeration of
rocks and metals awaiting the shivering and eager crowd impatiently
waiting outside along the sidewalk.
The event had been touted for over
a week, “teases” given to the audience to keep them glued to future
tidbits — shots of the glamorous Liz
with the various husbands who had
given her this or that bauble, shots
of her with this necklace around her
neck, that brooch perched above her
breast, that ring on her finger — all
in preparation for this opening night.
Not much of a jewelry person — I
could never quite understand the
primitive penchant for hanging shiny
stones and metal from or attaching to one’s person — I just couldn’t
get “into” the feverish hullabaloo of
auctioning off someone’s (no matter
whose) knickknacks (no matter how
expensive) to a zealous mob of status-seekers. As far as I’m concerned,
I’ve already seen one of Liz Taylor’s
real treasures up close and personal,
one given to her by Mike Todd in the
form of their daughter Liza Todd
Tivey. Liza, more precious than any
piece of stone or metal and equally
as beautiful as is her mother, stands
at the opposite pole of “celebrity” as
does Liz, content to live quietly and
creatively on her upstate New York
farm, confident in herself, in her talent, and in her choice of jealously
guarding her privacy. An extremely
gifted sculptor exquisitely attuned to
nature, Liza has a sensitive talent of
portraying animals in drawings, clay
or bronze, quietly making her name
in the artworld as a master sculptor of horses, having already back
in 1986 completed commissions to
portray “Northern Dancer” (1981),
“Nashua” and “Clem” (1982), “Ruffian” (1983), “Producer” (1984), “Seattle Slew” and “John Henry” (1985).
I have since learned that in 1990 a
cast bronze of her “Secretariat” had
been completed and am not surprised at the commission. Familiar
with horses since the age of 4, Liza
had eventually parlayed her love of
animals into the enviable position
of being named one of the world’s
foremost equestrian portraitists. I
had the great honor and pleasure to
spend an afternoon in October 1986
with Liza (profiling her in the following month in our November 1986 Issue), an afternoon of autumnal color
and cerulean skies that, even after
25 years, I still can clearly recall. An
outdoors person, Liza was anxious
to get out of her studio (where I prefer to hold my interviews in order to
get a “feel” for an artist’s space) and
to take me on a slow-paced tour of
her farm — which I soon found out
was her real “creative” space. Her
baby son Quinn snug in his carrier
on her back and accompanied by
“Bocci”, her pet donkey (a gift from
Mom who kept getting his nose
nudged between us as if to protectively guard his mistress) and her
dogs, we strolled her grounds, checking on her horse, her cats, and “her”
Canadian geese resting in her pond
(“They’re late this year,” she whispered), speaking of things that move
her, that “call” her, that shape her
thoughts and that eventually get
gently nudged into artforms. I’ll never forget Liza — diminutive, intense,
focused, completely unaffected or
pretensions — in brief, a genuine
treasure of the finest quality. You
can have the trinkets — I’ll cherish
the memory of Liza.
Raymond J. Steiner
(Visit my blog at rjsteiner.wordpress for more “Peeks & Piques!”)
think of our friends and supporters
and how blessed we are to have Art
Times in our community.
Warm Regards,
Barbara Cohen, Chairperson
Fall for Art, Kingston, NY
our Company and efforts. We raised
enough to send 4 dancers for a pilot
teaching program in January and
will continue to gather funds to send
10 of the Company for the Shilpgram
Festival next December 2012.
Meanwhile, I don't know if I
mentioned but please save the date
for Bill's symphonic premiere with
the Hudson Valley Philharmonic
March 31, 2012 at UPAC. It will
also be the 40th Anniversary of our
very first concert. Big gala event being planned and Bill is writing 24/7.
Very exciting.
Warm wishes to you!! and thank
you again.
Livia Vanaver
Vanaver Caravan
To the Publisher:
Great! [“Janet Rickus at Henoch”,
Jan/Feb 2012]
Andrew Liss
Gallery Henoch, NYC
To the Publisher:
Thank you for including the summary about the Chagall in High Falls
Exhibit in the Nov/Dec Art Times.
The more promotion the better especially in the world of art. Also
enjoyed reading that your editor,
Raymond J. Steiner, wrote a history of the Arts Student League! Will
want to read as soon as possible. I
do have a few old publications from
the Arts Student League's Summer
Programs in Woodstock published
in the late 1930's, early 1940's until
they closed for the war years. Many
of the League members who came to
Woodstock for the summer session
would go to Rondout, Eddyville, and
Rosendale and even as far as High
Falls when seeking new subject matter.
Would be interesting to do a show
at the D & H Museum Chapel on
this Woodstock/Ulster County/ D
& H Canal connection! We have a
beautiful space in our mini-gothic
like chapel and the recent success of
the Chagall in High Falls show was,
in no small part, assisted because of
this most interesting setting. Again,
thanks, keep up the good work and
stay in touch,
RiK Rydant
High Falls, NY
To the Publisher:
You're always the best at supporting
To the Publisher:
Thank you, Cornelia (and Ray)! It is
a fabulous review!!!' [“Drawings at
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center” Nov.Dec 2011].
Emily Darrow
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
To the Publisher:
Great! [“Janet Rickus at Henoch”,
Jan/Feb 2012]
Andrew Liss
Gallery Henoch, NYC
To the Publisher:
How wonderful, Cornelia—thanks so
much for sending our way! [“Drawings from the Louvre at The Morgan”, December 2011 online]
Very best,
Alanna
The Morgan Library & Museum
New York, NY
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To the Editor:
In your Peeks and Piques! column
(Nov/Dec 2011 page 2) you conclude
with the statement: “I don't see any
ready-made cure on the horizon.”
Well, I do! Advocate for NON-juried
art shows. I am amazed that so many
"genuine" artists put up with juries.
Our local arts club holds an annual members exhibit which allows
each member to display three works,
no jury. We get a much wider variety
and more genuine creativity than do
juried shows.
Donald A. Windsor
Norwich NY
[email protected]
Contents
Jan/ Feb 2012 ART TIMES page 2
Art ………………1, 7, 12
Art Book Review ……8
Calendar of Events ……4
Critiques ……………1, 3
Classifieds ……………18
Culturally Speaking…10
Dance …………………13
Editorial ……………2, 3
Fiction ……………14, 19
Film ……………………9
Letters  ………………2
Music…………………15
Opportunities ………16
Peeks & Piques! ………2
Poets’ Niche …………18
Speak Out ……………3
Theatre ………………17
Travel and Culture……5
Speak Out
Art Roadie
By Randy DeVillez
The dark skies were scattered
with dimming stars and the remaining glow of moonlight… a slight wind
out of the west. I was surrounded by
a swarm of cars and trucks and minivans all jockeying for position near
their allotted spots. I let the sport ute
idle as I followed the woman walking slowly in front of us, the woman
with the serious face, the flashlight,
clipboard, and huge mug of coffee.
Finally, she stopped and pointed at
the lines spray painted on the pavement: space number 22... our “home”
for the next twelve hours.
As I opened the back hatch and
began to wrestle the pop-up tent from
beneath the sandbags, I looked at my
artist wife, Billinda, grumbled, “Had
I known what being your art roadie
entailed, I never would have signed
up.” I followed with a wink, likely lost
in the early morning darkness.
“I love you, too, baby,” she said,
beginning to unload plastic bins of
prints and cards. Within an hour, the
sun was up, the tent was up, tables
set up, our chairs in place, a mug of
hot tea and hot coffee to satisfy our
addictions. Life on the road was good
again. Don’t tell my wife, but I love
being her art roadie. The experiences
are varied; the learning never stops.
I get to meet people and travel: to
art supply and mat and frame and
glass and print and screen-printing
shops. I have witnessed some amazing machines and some truly gifted
people operating them. I have become
fans of the counter folks at the state
sales tax offices.
I have learned new skills: sportute packing, sport-ute unpacking
(including in rain, in darkness, in
high winds, and in one hundred
three degree temperatures), matting,
framing, gluing, tent erecting (not
as kinky as it sounds), chit-chatting
with strangers at galleries and art
shows, swallowing my first reactions
when a browser in our tent says to a
friend, “Oh, Gladys. Don’t pay that
much for that. You can buy a cheaper
painting at Wal-Mart for your bathroom… and the frame will match your
toilet paper holder.” (I can’t make up
stuff this good, trust me.)
I have learned new terms: pointillism, giclée, and sumi-e (none of
which, for the uninformed, have
anything to do with sushi). I have
also learned new uses for household
items: hors d’oeuvres-sized crock pots
are great for melting wax, an autograph Sharpie is great for touching
up a nicked metal frame, a safety pin
is great for puncturing a sealed archival bag to reduce moisture build up
on a hot-and-humid day from hell at
a blacktopped-parking-lot art show,
and blue painter tape is not a great
substitute for affixing a print to a mat
when the archival tape dispenser is
empty and you have one print left to
mat at two in the morning.
The best part has been watching
my wife receive praise and compliments from the people who pass
through our display. From fellow
artists to art lovers (like myself) to
those just passing a lazy summer or
fall afternoon, people stop and spend
time looking. They don’t all make purchases, obviously, but the majority of
them pay tribute to the talent. And
that makes getting up at four, lugging
two hundred pounds of sandbags, and
setting up shop all worth it.
Sometimes, I even get to be involved with the creative aspect of my
wife’s art. Billinda and I are currently
collaborating on a book manuscript of
art and poetry, so working together
on a creative level adds another layer
of intimacy to our relationship. She
has work installed in co-ops and galleries in Springfield, Illinois, where
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Late one night, as we were about
to kiss goodnight, Billinda said, “You
know, I want to do something about
Lincoln, but not the usual.”
I heard her, but didn’t reply except
to say, “Sleep well… kiss you in the
morning.”
“Rest well, dream even better,”
was (and is) her nightly reply.
I heeded her advice. Upon awaking, I shook her, said, “Wake up. I
dreamt your Abe item. Central Illinois is known for cornfields and
Lincoln. In my dream, I saw Abe’s
hat hanging on a stalk of corn in a
field of corn.”
She smiled, kissed me, said, “I like
it…. I can see it,” and grabbing her
robe, she was off to her desk. It was
not long before she showed me pen
and ink with a touch of watercolor: my
dream on paper. I had dreamt writing
ideas before, but never a work of art.
I now have my very own roadie
shirt with this design on it. Most
roadies are not that lucky.
For me, the best part of art shows
or festivals, juried or otherwise, is
watching the patrons. Some stand silently and stare. Some very carefully
look through cases of prints. Some
shuffle roughly. Others talk a lot
about matching, either the furniture,
wallpaper, window treatments, upholstery, or, in one case, the dog and
its collar. I love when a person simply
gushes, “I love that, must have it.”
Another great benefit of being an
art roadie is getting to view and study
a lot of art, meeting lots of creative
people. Co-ops, galleries, and art
shows are always alive with conversation. It might range from gossip to
business to technique, but the conversation is never dull. And let’s be honest, all of us creative types are a little
left or right of center, which makes
us interesting and fun to be around.
Toss in some wine, a shot or two,
and some cheese
and crackers and
it hardly seems
like work…
…until it is
time to break
down and pack
up. At least this
totally disorganized disaster
occurs in daylight…usually. I
often say at least
I can see who
runs over me. Of
course, once we
arrive home, we
need to unload
the truck one more time, store the
goodies, take inventory for the next
show, and prepare orders to replenish. If I am lucky, I am treated to
a wonderful home-cooked meal or
taken out. We roadies like to eat. We
should; we do a lot of work for a tee
shirt… and love. I often see artists
who do it alone, without the help of a
roadie, loving or otherwise, and feel
like someone in those artists’ lives is
missing a really wonderful experience.
The next time you attend an art
festival or art show, after you greet
the artist and compliment him or
her, notice the person sitting in the
chair in the corner… perhaps napping, reading, or simply watching
the people. Just walk up, quietly say,
“Hey, roadie. Nice job anchoring the
tent with those sandbags.”
(Randy DeVillez, retired college
writing teacher, poet, writer,
and art roadie, lives in Athens,
IL. He can be reached at [email protected]; his wife
Billinda’s artwork can be seen at
www.billinda-brandli devillez.
artistwebsites.com/).
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Because our Calendar of Events is prepared a month in advance
dates, times and events are subject to change. Please call ahead
to insure accuracy. The county (and state if not NYS) where the
event takes place is noted in bold at the end of each listing.
Ongoing
Jan 3-8 Focus Dance: A celebration of U.S.-based dance, featuring performances by eight companies in a repertory schedule The Joyce Theater 175
Eighth Avenue New York NY 212-242-0800 charge www.joyce.org
Jan 6, 7, 8 American Buffalo (for adult audience); Jan 13-29 Annie The
Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck661 Route 308 Rhinebeck NY 845-876-3080
charge www.Centerforperformingarts.org
Sunday, January 1
Thursday, January 5
18th ANNUAL SMALL WORKS EXHIBIT Upstream Gallery 26 Main Street
Dobbs Ferry NY 914-674-8548 (thru Jan 29) www.upstreamgallery.com
The Non-I Protects the I SOHO20 Gallery 547 W. 27th Street, Suite 301
New York NY 212-367-8994 Opening Reception 6-8pm free (thru Jan 28) http://
www.soho20gallery.com
Friday, January 6
Draw-a-thon with Live Models, Demos, Music, Pool, Cash Bar & Pizza
Draw All Night & Stay for Breakfast Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212)
255-7740 9pm-7am (thru Jan 7) www.salmagundi.org
Group Show of photographic work by Gallery Artists Galerie BMG 12 Tannery Brook Rd Woodstock NY 845-679-0027 free (thru Feb 6) www.galeriebmg.com
Invitational printmaking show: Mapping the Familiar Adirondack
Artists’ Guild 52 Main St. Saranac Lake, NY NY 518-891-2615 Opening reception
5 - 7 pm free (thru Jan 29) adirondackartistsguild.com/
Judith Banyas Landscapes Les Malamut Art Gallery 1980 Morris Ave
Union NJ 908-851-5450 free (thru Jan 15) http://lesmalamutartgallery.web.officelive.com
Associate Members Winter Exhibition National Association of Women
Artists, Inc. 80 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1405 New York NY 212-675-1616 free (thru Jan
26) http://www.thenawa.org
Jose Miguelez Oil and acrylic landscapes Casano Community Center Art
Gallery 314 Chestnut St Roselle Park NJ 908-245-0666 free (thru Feb 17)
Saturday, January 7
“Beholden to Beauty” a group exhibit Windham Fine Arts 5380 Main
Street Windham NY 518-734-6850 (thru Jan 9)
Abundance The Arts Upstairs Gallery 60 Main St Phoenicia NY 845-6882142 free Opening reception December 17, 6-9pm www.ArtsUpstairs.com
In the Search of an Absolute: Art of Valery Yurlov The Zimmerli Art
Museum at Rutgers University 71 Hamilton Street New Brunswick NJ 732-932-7237
charge (thru June 3) http://www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu/exhibitions/?id=105
Curious George Saves the Day: The Art of Margret and H.S. Rey
Norman Rockwell Museum, Rte. 183, Stockbridge, MA (413) 298-4100 (thru Feb 5)
The Mind’s Eye: 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann (Feb 11);
Fish, Silk, Tea, Bamboo: Cultivating an Image of China (Mar 18); FreePort [No. 002]: Marianne Mueller (Mar 26); Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art (Apr 29); Painting the Modern in
India (Jun 1) East India Marine Associates Peabody Essex Museum East India
Square 161 Essex Street Salem MA 978-745-9500 charge http://pem.org/
Monday, January 2
Dreamscapes and Dayscapes: Prints and Paintings by Martha Ives
Suffern Free Library 210 Lafayette Ave. Suffern NY 845-357-1237 free (thru Jan
30 www.suffernfreelibrary.org
Tuesday, January 3
SCNY ART CLASSES EXHIBITION Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Ave., NYC (212)
255-7740 (thru Jan 20) www.salmagundi.org
SCNY Junior & Scholarship Members’ Exhibit Salmagundi Club 47
Fifth Ave., NYC (212) 255-7740 (thru Jan 20) www.salmagundi.org
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January 4 February 2, 2012
Spiral #2 (detail), corrugated cardboard, 2010. Photo courtesy The Re Institute.
Gotham Dance Skirball Center for the Performing Arts 566 LaGuardia Place
New York NY 212-352-3101 Scheduled to perform in two separate programs over
two nights are artists from across the globe. charge skirballCenter.org
“Cuisine ‘N Art” - multi-media show featuring food related people, places
and things Guild of Creative Art 620 Broad Street Shrewsbury NJ 732-741-1441
Opening reception 5-8 pm. Pot luck fundraiser; BYOB $10 per person donate (thru
Feb 1) www.guildofcreativeart.org
The Italians--photographs by Leonard Freed/Paintings by
Janet Lage Garrison Art Center Garrison Art Center 23 Depot Square on
Garrison’s Landing Garrison NY 845-424-3960 free (thru Jan 29) www.garrisonartCenter.org
PLACE + Images of built and natural environments by David F. Donnelly
Harrison Council for the Arts Harrison Public Library 2 Bruce Avenue Harrison
NY 914-835-0324 free (thru Feb 4) www.harrisonpl.org
HENRY KLIMOWICZ Exhibit Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken
Rd., Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 Artist’s Reception 4-6PM (thru Feb 2) www.hotchkiss.org/abouthotchkiss/tremaine-gallery/index.aspx
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Just Released !
Hudson Valley
Impressions
Paintings and Text
by Raymond J. Steiner
Artist’s reception:
January 7
4 - 6 p.m.
FABRICATED
with photographs by
Edward Burtynsky
Xavier Delory
Jim Kazanjian
Leigh Merrill
Susan Wides
Xavier Delory, Lidl, 2010. Archival pigment print, 27”x41”
Raymond J. Steiner painting en plein air
real and imagined architecture
February 7 - March 2, 2012
Opening Reception: February 11, 4-6 p.m.
Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School
11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, Connecticut
Gallery hours: Monday - Saturday 10 - 4 ; Sunday, 12 - 4
(860) 435 - 3663 ~ www.hotchkiss.org/arts
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Travel and Culture
By CORNELIA SECKEL
The members of the Woodstock
Arts Fair’s workers and volunteers
were invited by one of our members to
join her in Puerto Rico after the Fair.
There were 6 of us and it was wonderful. Christopher Columbus landed
on the island of Puerto Rico in 1493
on his second voyage of discovery,
and originally named it San Juan
Bautista in honor of Saint John
the Baptist. The name of the island’s
present day capital, San Juan, honors the name Columbus first gave
the island. In 1508, it was settled
Puerto Rico
minican. Puerto Rico is a combination of all these cultures and has a
distinct Latin temperament. Often
when I would question something my
friend would tell me “this is Puerto
Rico, there is a different time sense
here”. We stayed in Isabela, located
in the north-western region of the island where the annual precipitation
is around 62.8 inches, and average
temperature is 84.7°F. (ask me if
I’m ready to return). For most of our
time we walked the beach, ate typical
Puerto Rican food, did some shopping
and exploring. One day several of
the women happened
upon Aguadilla and
we understood that it
was a catholic holiday
(beginning of Advent
perhaps) and festivities
included Santa coming
to town and a truck
that had a snow making machine shooting
snow out amongst the
thousands of people
that lined the streets.
They had a great time
and were treated to local culture
Though there are
numerous galleries
throughout the island,
I visited just a few.
The Gaba Gallery in
Aguarda is owned by
artist Nayda Bonet.
She has many paintings, sculptures and
jewelry from local artists. Myra, our hostess
in Puerto Rico and my
co-chair of the WoodHand carved mask often used in ceremonies
stock Arts Fair, is a
by explorer Ponce de Leon and the sculptor and painter. She brought
island stayed under Spanish posses- one of her paintings “Las Brisas del
sion for over four centuries until 1898 Secreto” to have framed and Nayda
when it became a commonwealth asked if she could have it to sell at the
of the United States. Today there gallery. Nayda has a small coffee bar
is a blending of cultures including and Thursday evenings she has Jazz
the ancient Taíno people that were musicians performing. Myra’s friend
exploited/ eradicated (although with Deborah’s apartment is a gallery
DNA testing many Puerto Ricans are unto itself. She had several paintings
reconnecting with their roots), the by Wichie Torres whose landscapes
Africans who were brought there and cityscapes and portraits of inas slaves, and peoples from Spain, digenous people are powerful with
France, Cuba, Lebanese and Do- bold colors and strong brush strokes.
Myra Schwartz and Nayda Bonet with Myra's painting “Las Brisas del Secreto”
Woodstock Arts Fair Committee members in Puerto Rico. (L to R) Ann Silverman,
Cornelia Seckel, Myra Schwartz, Ruth Beyl, Betsy Oden, Elaine Jaffe
Another painter whom we all seemed philanthropist, and future governor
to like is Movra whose work is remi- of Puerto Rico, purchased 24 paintniscent of the social realists here in ings at auction in Sotheby’s in New
the states. Other predominant art- York City. Thirteen of these are still
work includes masks (many worn at part of the museum’s collection that
certain festivals), santos (usually a now has over 4,500 works of art from
carving of a saint on wood also used many cultures dating from the 9th
for religious purposes), prints, and century to the present. Nineteenthjewelry.
An important art
museum in Puerto Rico
is the National Gallery, located in San
Juan in an old Dominican Convent
that was built in the
16th century and contains a gallery of paintings from Puerto Rican
masters such as Jose
Campeche y Francisco Oller. Additionally there are a number
of rooms of paintings
and other works of art
(paintings and decorative) from Puerto
Rican artisans of the
18th – 20th centuries.
As I understand it, serious students of Puerto Rican art go to the
Institute of Puerto
Rican Culture in the
Dominican Convent in
Old San Juan. It’s the
Painting by Puerto Rican artist Wichie Torres
best source of information on the island about Puerto Rican century English painting and seventeenth-century Baroque painting
arts and crafts.
Also in San Juan is the Museum are the 2 strongest collections in the
of the Americas housing a number of museum. The Anton J. Konrad
exhibits, some permanent, and some Conservation Center, founded in
temporary all with the focus to bring 1979 by Anton J. Konrad is part of
about understanding of the history the museum complex. It was the first
and culture of the Americas. It covers laboratory for the conservation of art
art from the pre-Columbian era to works to be established in Puerto
the present and a variety of artists Rico, and its dual mission has been to
from Latin America, the United conserve and protect the collections of
States and Puerto Rico are show- the Museo de Arte de Ponce and to ofcased at the Museum. The Museo de fer professional services to museums,
Arte de Ponce opened its doors on historical societies, cultural instituJanuary 3, 1959, in a colonial house tions, private collectors, and local and
in the heart of Ponce, the second international artists.
I expect to travel again to Puerto
largest city in Puerto Rico. The first
Rico,
and this time to visit with indiworks in the museum’s collection
vidual
artists.
were acquired in 1957, when Luis
ef
A. Ferré, a successful businessman,
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Meade Gallery 5025 Vega Mountain Road Roxbury NY 607-326-7908 free (thru Mar
16) www.roxburyartsgroup.org
Sunday, January 8
Sunday, January 15
Gotham Dance Skirball Center for the Performing Arts 566 LaGuardia Place
New York NY 212-352-3101 Scheduled to perform in two separate programs over
two nights are artists from across the globe. charge skirballCenter.org
Houston Person Quartet in Concert The Schoolhouse Theater 3 Owens
Road Croton Falls NY 914-277-8477 7:30pm charge www.schoolhousetheater.org
Weathering Scape: Tomoko Abe Clay Art Center 40 Beech Street Port
Chester NY 914-937-2047 Opening Reception 3-5pm free (thru Feb 11) www.clayartCenter.org
Monday, January 9
Under 30 - Group Exhibition of works under 30” Skylight Gallery NYC 538
West 29th Street (between 10th and 11th Ave.) New York NY 845-222-0177 free
(thru Feb 17) www.skylightgallerynyc.com
Wednesday, January 11
Strawberry Hill Fiddlers in Concert Saugerties Pro Musica Saugerties
United Methodist Church Corner of Washington Ave and Post Street Saugerties NY
845-246-5021 3-4:15pm charge www.saugertiespromusica.org
Tuesday, January 17
Kingston’s Playwrights Lab presents an Actors’ Marathon Arts Society of Kingston 97 Broadway Kingston NY 845-338-0331 6:30 p.m. donate The snow
date Jan. 24. www.askforarts.org
Associate Members Winter Exhibition National Association of Women
Artists, Inc. 80 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1405 New York NY 212-675-1616 Reception:
5-7pm free (thru Jan 26) http://www.thenawa.org
Surface Tension: works by Ayami Aoyama & Florence
Moonan The Gallery at Mercer County Community College 1200 Old
Trenton Rd. West Windsor NJ 609-570-3589 Opening Reception 5-7:30pm;
Gallery Talk: February 1, 7pm free (thru Feb 9) www.mccc.edu/community_gallery
Thursday, January 12
Thursday, January 19
Under 30 - Group Exhibition of works under 30” Skylight Gallery NYC 538
West 29th Street (between 10th and 11th Ave.) New York NY 845-222-0177 Opening
Reception 6-9 pm free (thru Feb 17 www.skylightgallerynyc.com
Baroque Blockbusters - David Shuler, organist Music & Arts at
St. Luke in the Fields 487 Hudson Street (1 block South of Christopher Street) New
York NY 212-414-9419 8-9:30 pm charge concerts.stlukeinthefields.org
On Your Mark: group exhibit Blue Door Gallery 13 Riverdale Avenue Yonkers
NY free (Feb 18)
Maureen Kelleher: solo exhibit Tender Strength All Around Me Freyberger Gallery Penn State Berks Tulpehocken Rd, PO Box 7009 Reading PA 610-3966140 free (thru Mar 4) www.bk.psu.edu/information/community/freyberger.htm
Friday, January 13
Annie Opening Night Fundraiser benefits the Dutchess County
SPCA. The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck661 Route 308 Rhinebeck NY
845-876-3080 charge www.Centerforperformingarts.org
Saturday, January 14
Artist’s Choice Show Sussex County Arts and Heritage Council 133 Spring
Street Newton NJ 973-383-0027 Opening Reception 4-6 pm. free (thru Feb 4) www.
scahc.org
The Coming of Age in America: The Photography of Joseph Szabo
(thru Mar 25) A Way with Words: Text in Art works from the Permanent Collection (thru Apr 15) The Heckscher Museum of Art 2 Prime Avenue
Huntington NY 631-351-3250 charge www.heckscher.org
bau 85 Go West-Karlos Carcamo, Greg Slick and Eleanor
White Beacon Artist Union bau Gallery 161 Main Street Beacon NY 845-440-7584
Opening Reception 6-9 pm free (thru Feb 5) baugallery.com
The Italians--photographs by Leonard Freed/Paintings by
Janet Lage Garrison Art Center Garrison Art Center 23 Depot Square on Garrison’s Landing Garrison NY 845-424-3960 Artists’ Reception 6 to 8pm free (thru
Jan 29) www.garrisonartCenter.org
PLACE + Images of built and natural environments by David F. Donnelly Harrison Council for the Arts Harrison Public Library 2 Bruce Avenue Harrison
NY 914-835-0324 Opening Reception 2-4pm free (thru Feb 4) www.harrisonpl.org
Michael Fauerbach: A Retrospective The Roxbury Arts Group The Walt
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WITNESS Freyberger Gallery Penn State Berks Tulpehocken Rd, PO Box 7009
Reading PA 610-396-6140 Reception 6 pm free (thru Mar 4)
Friday, January 20
HEARTS FOR HAITI: A Haitian Art & Handcraft Sale Vassar Haiti Project
Convent of the Sacred Heart School, 1177 King St., Greenwich, CT 845-797-2123
5-8pm
Chinese New Year Celebration Pelham Art Center 155 Fifth Avenue
Pelham NY 914-738-2525 1:30-3:30pm free pelhamartCenter.org
The Amazing Max: family magic show Manhattan Movement and Arts Center 248 West 60th Street New York NY 212-787-1178 charge (thru Mar 10) www.
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27th Annual National Juried Contemporary New Directions ‘12 Dutchess
County Art Association / Barrett Art Center 55 Noxon Street Poughkeepsie NY 845471-2550 Opening Reception 3-5 pm. free (thru Mar 9) www.barrettartCenter.org
HEARTS FOR HAITI: A Haitian Art & Handcraft Sale Vassar Haiti Project
Convent of the Sacred Heart School, 1177 King St., Greenwich, CT 845-797-2123
10-4pm
Sunday, January 22
32nd Annual Regional Juried Show The Ridgewood Art Institute 12 East Glen
Avenue Ridgewood NJ 201-652-9615 Opening Reception 2-4pm (thru Feb 3) www.
ridgewoodartinstitute.org
Yonkers Philharmonic All American Concert Fine Arts Orchestral
Society Saunders High School 183 Palmer Road Yonkers NY 914-631-6674 3pm
free Copland, Barber, Diamond and Gershwin. Tamara Tsoutsouris, soprano soloist.
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at Hawthorne Fine Art; Janet Rickus at Gallery Henoch;
“Lili's Jarre” Oil on Canvas
Gallery Henoch has long been ahead of the curve when it comes to keeping
faith with the allure of traditional art during its forced obscurity through the
‘80s and beyond when visual “emptiness” was all the rage. Janet Rickus is
but one more of a long line of realists that the gallery has featured over the
“Turned Away” Oil on Canvas
past…but definitely not “just” one more. Some seventeen paintings comprise
the exhibit**, each riveting the eye as soon as one enters the gallery. An attention to near-minute detail – e.g. in the classical treatment of folds and creases in the multi-sized, multi colored cloths that cover the surfaces of tables — is
faithfully repeated in the shapes of fruits and vessels. An adept draftsman, some of her edibles — for instance the mangoes in Turned Away —invite plucking
from the canvas, while her near-jumble of cups, bowls, and vases in Lili’s Jarre dazzle the eye by their distinctly-rendered individual forms. Never harsh,
Rickus’s paintings are yet starkly presented to the viewer’s eye in carefully chosen primary colors, presenting her chosen objects as “things-in-themselves”
without benefit of the usual chiaroscuro or over-subtle nuance. This is classical art by one its superb modern masters.
** “Janet Rickus: Recent Paintings” (thru Dec 10): Gallery Henoch, 555 W. 25th St., NYC (917) 305-0003. Images courtesy of Henoch Gallery
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Théodore Géricault “The Artist's Left Hand”
The viewing of classical drawings has long been my passion (see, e.g. our last
issue, Nov/Dec 2011, with its review of master drawings at Vassar’s Loeb Art
Center) and the current exhibit*** at The Morgan, a sumptuous, visual treat.
Some 80 works comprise the show, each a standout example of master draftsmanship — an art, alas, almost ignored by so many of our present-day painters.
Along with depictions of the usual array of courtly, mythological or military
exploits, there were several that I found myself pondering over: Pierre-Paul
Prud’hon’s Standing Female Nude Resting Her Arms on a Branch, Théodore
Géricault's Studies of Cats and The Artist’s Left Hand, Victor Orsel’s Study for
Honoré Daumier “Head of a Young Woman Turned Three-Quarters to the Right”
Eternity, Camille Corot’s Stream in the Woods near Civita Castelanna, Eugène
Delacroix's View of the Duquesne Quay at Dieppe, Paul Huet’s The Côte de Grâce
at Honfleur, Honoré Daumier's Head of a Young Woman, Turned Three-Quarters to the Right, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s Studies for the Turkish Bath (just one of many of his stunning drawings) — all exceptional, all master works. What a loss to our world of art that such talent is now sloughed
off as passé!
*** “David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France: Drawings from the Louvre” (thru Dec 31): The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison
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Sunday, January 29
Demonstration by John Phillip Osborne The Ridgewood Art Institute 12 East Glen Avenue Ridgewood NJ 201-652-9615 1:30pm free www.ridgewoodartinstitute.org
Red Works, Paintings by Basha Maryanska Connie Noelle
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By HENRY P. RALEIGH
There are plenty of people still
around who will tell you that the
1950’s was the last good decade before
everything started going downhill.
OK, there was a cold war and a hot
war but save for the participants in
these affairs they could be pretty
much ignored by a country happy
enough to be living in that good
decade. And it was a particularly
good time to be a post-atomic
mutated monster. You might say the
decade was the movie Golden Age of
such beings. It began inauspiciously
in 1952 with a George Pal production
“When Worlds Collide” but really
gathers steam with “The Thing From
Another World” in that same year.
Also known modestly as “The Thing”
it was notable for having delivered
the very first known space monster.
After that there was no stopping the
parade of monsters, creatures, and
beasties. They came in a great variety
of forms although fashion trends ran
to overly large heads heavily veined,
single or multi-eyed and numerous
waving arm-like appendages and
little else. While a jingly sound was
preferred among mutated insects
most of the others were quite
capable of impressive shrieks, yowls,
howls and slurping noises. Those
few monsters incapable of sound for
reasons of bodily structure or lack
thereof settled for scary musical
accompaniments.
Among the 1953 invasion was
the highly regarded “It came From
Outer Space”, the first to use desert
scenery sending SouthWest real
estate prices plummeting, and the
“The Beast From Twenty Thousand
Fathoms”. The very best of the lot in
1954 was “Them”, a candidate for an
Oscar had there been a category for
enormous ants. 1955 was a busy year
and gave us “It Came From Beneath
the Sea”, “The Beast With a Million
Eyes”, and “This Island Earth”. Never
getting a well-deserved break 1956
saw the monsters in “It Conquered
the World”, “The Creature Walks
Among Us”, “Attach of the Crab
Monsters”, and “The beast of Hollow
Mountain”. 1957 steps up the pace
with “The Amazing Colossal Man”,
“The Monolithic Monsters”, “The
Giant Claw”, “The Astonishing
She-Monster”, and “Invasion of the
Saucer Man”.
Just when it seemed that surely
the
over-worked,
over-stressed
monsters could not continue this
hectic performance the following
years right up to 1959 provided
“The Blob”, “The Terror From Outer
Space”, “The Atomic Submarine”
and “Attack of the Giant Leeches”.
Admittedly this last hinted at a slight
loss of vigor, a certain lessening of
élan — perhaps because the subject
lacked the cozy familiarity of ants,
crabs and spiders. In any case it was
just not the same after that. Most of
the monsters returned from whence
they came and sadly the next
decades featured them if all, in cruel
parodies. “The Attach of the Killer
Tomatoes” in 1979 shamefully ended
their once Golden Reign.
While the monsters may have
retreated to lick their wounds, left
behind were the actors who had
been regulars in many of these low
budget B movies. A few had been
so closely associated with the genre
that their careers in film were cut
short. Best known for escaping this
fate was James Arness, the monster
in “The Thing”, who soon found
himself helping out John Wayne in
“Big Jim McClain” and incinerating
giant ants in “Them” before going
to Gun Smoke fame. Another is
Barbara Rush, lucky enough to
distance herself from “This Island
Earth” and “When Worlds Collide”
and find important roles in the
1954 “Magnificent Obsession”, “The
Young Philadelphians” in ’59 and a
respectable long run in Hollywood
films. Faith Domergue was less
fortunate. After a promising start in
film she was given a supporting role
in “This Island Earth” and “It came
from Beneath the Sea”, wound up in
“Prehistoric Planet Women” in 1966.
An actor who managed to benefit
from the B stigma was Kenneth
Tobey who was such an ubiquitous
figure in the monster movies he
created an illusion that he must
somehow have been in all of them.
Any film title that included the
words ‘beast’, ‘terror’, ‘invaders’,
‘outer space” or ‘strange’ would
almost certainly see Kenneth Tobey
in some part or another. In tribute of
sorts later films found him in cameo
roles — “Inner Space”, “Gremlins”,
“Honey, I Shrunk the Kids”, among
others.
The good decade and the Golden
Age of movie monsters and mutants
has long gone by but we should recall
and heed the words that closed the
1951 “The Thing From Outer Space”:
“I bring you warning — to
everyone of you listening to the
sound of my voice. Tell the world, tell
this to everyone where ever they are:
Watch the skies, watch everywhere,
keep looking — watch the skies!”
Damn right, I say.
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First off, I hope you all had a
good Holiday season and are ready
for the winter when you can pull
your resources together in preparation for the reawakening of creativity/ nature. As I thought about the
past 2 months, it didn’t seem that I
had been out and about much until
I started writing down all the places
and things I did.
some areas dumped a foot of snow.
Having been out of power, the Saturday evening performance had
been cancelled. It was with great
joy that on Sunday morning power
was resumed and preparations were
made for a performance. Just barely
2 hours before show time a car hit
the main transformer on the main
road to town and all power was lost
yet again. Dancers insisted on going
New York Theatre Ballet Performance at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center
in Tivoli, NY. Note the natural lighting from the windows as there was no electricity
Performances at Kaatsbaan
International Dance Center
(kaatsbaan.org) in Tivoli, NY are
always exceptional. New York
Theatre Ballet (nytb.org) (known
for their revivals of classic ballet
masterworks), and founder and Artistic Director Diana Byer, showed
their true colors when they finished
up a 3-week workshop with a public
performance. It was the day after the
“October Snow Storm” that knocked
out power for a million homes along
the Northeastern corridor and in
through with the performance and
the natural light from the very tall
windows on each side of the stage
area (the size of the Metropolitan
Opera house stage) gave some very
interesting lighting effects. Music
was provided by pianist Michael
Scales. Fortunately, it was a beautiful and sunny day. The dancers are
exquisite — strong, passionate, and
technically sound. What troopers!!
Expect a short video of this performance on the arttimes YouTube
channel
When I deliver the issues to the Art Club’s 115th Annual Open
galleries in Chelsea I get another Exhibition Awards Dinner is a
chance to see artists’ work that I may delightful affair. I get to meet lots
not have had on my radar. Marcia of women who I have spoken with
Clark was showing paintings and on the phone and usually get to
oil sketches from her travels. I par- greet the winner of the ART TIMES
ticularly like her use of
Mylar panels that gave
such a wide view of the
landscape she painted.
See her work at marciaclarkpaintings.com •
HeartShare, Human
Services of New York,
(heartshare.org), annually presents the work
of artists with intellectual and developmental
disabilities at the New
Century Artists (newcenturyartists.org) galleries in NYC. It is a very
exciting group of artists’
work varying in quality
but always passionate.
• Lynne Friedman’s
(lynnefriedmanart.com)
Northeast/ Southwest
was at the Prince Street
Gallery. I like Lynne’s
work; she uses bold and
bright colors in most all
of her paintings. When I
went to her website I took
a look at her drawings
which are excellent. • Allied Artists of America
(est. 1914) held their Carole Dakake, left, winner of the ART TIMES award
for her painting “Woman in White”.
98 th Annual Exhibit
Cornelia Seckel is to the right of the painting.
at the National Arts
(Photo credit: John Whinston)
Club in NYC. The goal
of the Allied Artists of America, Inc. award. This year’s award went to
is to further the cause of contempo- Carole Dakake for her painting
rary American artists through its Woman in White. I was one of the
Annual National Open Exhibi- painting judges for this show and for
tion, demonstrations, lectures, and the first time chose Carole’s painting
$24,000 awards in cash and medals to receive an award (although not
specifically which award) and it was
at the Annual.
The Catharine Lorillard Wolf thrilling to see work again that I had
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Some of the 81 newly elected members of the National Association of Women Artists
(est. 1889) that were inducted into the organization at a general meeting held at the
Rubin Museum of Art in NYC.
spent hours looking at and then had
chosen for awards. I was pleased to
be able to speak for a few minutes
during the awards presentation and
to congratulate all the artists whose
work was in the show and to briefly
describe how difficult it was to make
the choices we (the judges) did. Bob
Trien received the Creative Hands
Award, given to someone who is a
strong supporter of the club. Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1828-1887)
was a prominent New York philanthropist and art collector, and the
only woman among the 106 founders
of The Metropolitan Museum of
Art. In addition to bequeathing her
painting collection to the museum,
Ms. Wolfe left an endowment to
Grace Church in Manhattan to
promote “women’s work.” At the
urging of Rector Dr. William Reed
Huntington and several parishioners, the Catharine Lorillard
Wolfe Art Club was established in
1896. The purpose at the time was
to provide aid, counsel and exhibition opportunities to young women
artists in New York City.
The 4th Annual Woodstock Arts
Fair cosponsored by ART TIMES
and the Woodstock Jewish Congregation was again a big success.
There were more people than in
previous years that came to the Fair
and artists and craftspeople were,
for the most part, happy with their
sales and the fair in general. It is
the goal of the organizers to provide
a professional and relaxed venue for
participants to sell their work; to
introduce the community to the WJC
and its facilities, and be a fundraiser
for the WJC. Early next summer,
look for the notices for applications
for the 5th Annual WAF.
It was my mother’s birthday and
we went to Tilles, (www.tillescenter.org) the Performing Arts Center at CW Post Campus of Long
Island University in Brookville,
NY. Touted as Long Island’s premier
concert hall they offer over 100 performances by world-renowned artists in music, theater and dance each
season. In addition, Tilles Center is
home to regional arts organizations
including the Long Island Philharmonic and Eglevsky Ballet.
We went to a family performance of
Momix. The performance was at
11am and was just a shortened program from the previous evening. The
audience consisted of children with
their parents and/ or grandparents,
and Seniors who don’t want to drive
at night. I never thought to look
at the Family offerings, but what
a good idea. MOMIX is a company
of dancer-illusionists under the direction of Moses Pendleton. The
program was breathtaking. They
are fabulous dancers, presenting
innovative choreography in beautiful costumes and flowing props. You
might see them in film and television, and commercials. If they’re in
your area don’t miss them, they are
great (www.momix.com).
Bard College Symphonic
Chorus and the Bard College
Chamber Singers give an annual
concert and I’ve been to quite a few
of them over the years. Composed
of Bard students and community
members they are under the direc-
tion of conductor James Bagwell.
This year’s program included the
Franz Joseph Haydn Mass “Harmoniemesse”. My only complaint
was that the program was too short.
In November, 81 newly elected
members of the National Association of Women Artists (est. 1889)
were inducted into the organization
at a general meeting held at the
Rubin Museum of Art in NYC.
Currently, more than 800 artist
members are located in 42 of the
50 States with members working
in a variety of mediums within the
visual arts. The heads of the various
committees spoke and new members
were then able to sign up for specific
volunteer work for the organization.
Membership is open to all professional women artists in the US
and Puerto Rico and in March and
September applicants are selected
by a jury from slides and cds. Mary
Cassatt, Gertrude Vanderbilt
Whitney, Isabel Bishop, Anna
Hyatt Huntington, Alice Neel,
Louise Nevelson, Audrey Flack,
had been a very large warehouse.
Stephen Tenner, Lou Sina and
Erica Price are the 3 principals in
this very enthusiastic and ambitious
undertaking. “If you can dream it,
you can do it” is their motto. They
have great determination to bring
all the arts under one roof. It is their
idea to use the 14,000 sq. ft. of their
part of the building (the other half
being used by the owners’ business)
and offer a Theatre, an Art Gallery,
Opera, Jazz and Cabaret, Photography, Fashion Design, Dance and
more. It is expected that this will
provide economic development and
tourism for Ulster County while
showcasing the arts and enhancing
the already existing cultural outlets.
Soon they will launch an event that
will be a collaborative effort to bring
all the arts organizations together
and promote them. At the first of
several focus group meetings, there
were artists, actors, filmmakers,
musicians, directors, writers, arts
business people and a representative from the economic development
An informational meeting of the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory (SPAF)
located in Saugerties, NY
Miriam Shapiro, Pat Adams,
Faith Ringgold were/ are all members of this important organization
that provides numerous exhibition
opportunities, educational programs, networking events and an
image registry and historic archive.
Applications are available at www.
thenawa.org
I was invited to an informational
meeting of the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory located in
Saugerties, NY and housed in what
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Art
Gesichter der Renaissance - Faces of the Renaissance
Review Masterpieces of Italian Portraiture
(Images courtesy of the Boden Museum, Berlin, Germany)
By J. IWAN, PhD
On October 27, my wife Jacky
took the opportunity to snatch two of
the last “early bird” tickets for the exhibition “Faces of the Renaissance”*
at the Bode Museum on Museum
Island in the very center of Berlin/
Germany. These tickets enabled us
to get into the exhibition halls an
hour before the regular crowd was
let in, portion by portion. When we
arrived at the Bode Museum next
morning shortly before nine o’clock,
an unbelievable number of people
had already queued up in front of
the entrance — the line stretching
beyond a distance of definitely more
than 500 yards. As we passed all
these unfortunate art lovers waiting
for their turn to be admitted to the
exhibition, I was even more grateful to Jacky for having obtained
our special tickets, which saved us
an incalculable waiting period. The
exhibition is a cooperation between
the Bode Museum in Berlin and the
Metropolitan Museum in New York
City, and it unites for the first time
unique masterpieces of (mainly) Italian portraiture of the Renaissance
era from both locations, Berlin and
New York. Therefore, after closing
down over here on November 20, the
majority of the exhibits will travel to
the Metropolitan Museum, which is
going to show them from December
19,2011 to March 18,2012.
The collection gathered for both
above-mentioned events comprises
paintings, drawings, sculptures
and portrait medals, which for several reasons were very popular in
the 15th century at Italian courts.
Altogether, the exhibition is structured geographically, with Florence,
Milano, Rome and Venice being the
focal points. In my opinion, this
grandiose assembly of Renaissance
art work strikingly demonstrates
the transition from medieval to
Leonardo da Vinci Lady with an Ermine (portrait of Cecilia
Gallerani), 1489/90 Kraków, owned by Princes Czartoryski
Foundation, at the National Museum © bpk / Scala
modern painting and sculpturing.
Paintings of Raphael, the Pollaiuolo
brothers and ‑— above all — Leonardo da Vinci (just to name a few)
illustrate this development quite
clearly. It is reflected not only by
technical details (e.g. change from
tempera to oil or change of the visual
angle from full profile to half profile)
but also, and most importantly, by
the intention of the artist, not just
to create a more or less superficial
similarity to the person depicted but
also to unveil characteristic properties of his/her soul and the feelings
prevailing at moment caught in the
respective representation. All this is
Antonio del Pollaiuolo Portrait of a Young Woman,
c 1465/70 Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli
© Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan
most obvious in Leonardo’s painting
“The Lady with the Ermine”, which
is the undisputed highlight of the entire exhibition. Unfortunately, this
piece will not be shown in New York
since it has meanwhile been shipped
to London/GB and is going to return to the Czartoryski Museum in
Krakow/Poland afterwards. But
even without Leonardo’s Lady, the
exhibition is an absolute must, as in
the face of all these masterpieces the
eternal question — what is art, and
what not?** — becomes irrelevant.
So much to whet your appetite for
the upcoming exhibition in the
Metropolitan Museum. I am sure,
you will read a true expert review
in the next issue of Art Times,
when the collection of “Faces of the
Renaissance” has become open to
the public in New York City.
*(Venues: Berlin, Bode Museum,
August 25, 2011 - November 20,
2011; New York City, Metropolitan Museum, December 19
- March 18, 2012)
**As a layman, my own definition
of art is this: Everything I couldn’t
do better.
(J.Iwan, PhD., lives in Berlin,
Germany).
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Dance
Labors for Loves Lost
By Francine L. Trevens
When Percy Bysshe Shelley
died in 1822 his widow, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (author of Frankenstein and subsequently many
other stories and novels), dedicated
many years of her life to gathering,
fair copying and getting published
all his works as a memorial to him.
She persisted in this throughout her
life, even though her father-in-law
refused funds to raise his grandson if
she honored the poet’s name.
When Clive Barnes died in 2008,
his widow, Valerie Taylor Barnes
(former Sadler’s Wells/Royal Ballet
Dancer), dedicated the years following to establishing a foundation in his
honor. This year, The Clive Barnes
Foundation celebrated its second year
of awards to outstanding new talents
in the fields of drama and dance, both
honored the art he loves and the artists
who work towards those goals. Clive
Barnes was such a critic of dance and
theater. He did not reflect the opinion
of the audience; he reflected the aims
of the theater and dance disciplines.
He delighted in finding dedicated and
talented new dancers and actors and
in bringing them to the attention of his
reading public.
On first meeting, Valerie TaylorBarnes and I chatted, reminiscing
about Mr. Barnes. She and the
critic had married on July 24, 2004.
The year they married, “Clive went
through four surgeries, so we had to
pick a date when he would not be in
hospital.”
He called to tell his first wife of the
date (they had wed on the 26th of July
many years before, and he, with no
memory for dates, had set his second
marriage on the 26th
of July some years
later, which naturally
appalled the previous
wife.) This time the
first wife remarked,
“Well, at least it isn’t
the 26th!”
We reminisced
about 17 year-old
Valerie’s first trip to
America with Sadler’s
Wells as the youngest
dancer in the company. “Being the youngest in the company,
I was stand-by for
everyone.”
They were housed
in Boston in a hotel where everything
was pink. She wondered about it, as did
the other dancers.
Turns out, they had
been booked rooms
Isabella Boynton as soloist in “Bright Stream”
in a “brothel!” as she
photo by Rosalie O'Connor
called it, a short rental
by the hour hotel.
of which Clive covered so assiduously
We
talked
about Clive’s reputaas a theater/dance critic of great dedition
for
sleeping
through some percation, integrity and insight.
formances.
I
knew
he had not slept,
This year’s Awards were held in
because
his
reviews
always indicated
early December. I spoke subsequenthe
had
heard
everything.
Myself havly with Ms. Taylor-Barnes, a graing
been
a
daily
dance/theater
critic
cious, vivacious and very personable
in
Springfield,
Ma.
and
then
a
theatriwoman with her charming English
accent, about how she managed to cal press agent in New York, I often
get this foundation established, able closed my eyes after attending plays
to award $5,000 to two winners each every night plus Wednesday, Saturyear and $500 to each of the 3 finalists day and Sunday matinees! I think she
in each of the two artistic disciplines. was pleased that I had realized Clive
I queried how she knew how to go was not asleep.
Ms Taylor-Barnes said during her
about establishing such a foundation
years
married to Clive she went to the
and she admitted, “I didn’t. I had lots
theater
with him 8 or 9 times a week.
of help. First from Gwin Job Chin
His
work,
therefore, entailed a great
and Jennifer Dunning, and later
deal
of
sitting.
Because he loved food,
from many others, especially Adrian
his
weight
was
erratic, even though
Bryan Brown.”
he
exercised
every
day.
The misses Chin and Dunning
“One
month
he
could be 155
were co-staffers at the New York
pounds,
and
several
months later,
Times during Clive’s stint as the
top
200.
He
had
two
sets
of clothes.”
critic for theater and dance at that
I
know
many
women
who
also have
esteemed publication.
skinny
clothes
and
heavy
weight
A critic has a special task: to define
clothes
and
was
amused
by
this.
and uphold standards of the art which
Clive was so dedicated to his work
he assesses. It is not his job to tell the
that
a mere three weeks before his
story of the work – it is his job to grade
death
he attended an American Balthe work against the highest level of
let
Theater
performance at City Censuch achievements. Only then has he
ter. In the last thing
he wrote, Clive compared Daniil Simkin, American Ballet
soloist, to Baryshnikov.
In early winter
the year following
Clive’s death, his
widow held a celebration of Clive’s
life. From the many
remarkable people
who attended and
spoke to her about
Clive Barnes's favorite photo of himself.
the critic and his good
Courtesy Clive Barnes Foundation.
works, was born the
idea of the foundation. So many peo- to say something to the audience. The
ple at this celebration of life urged, actors had no problem with that, but
“Go on, do not stop,” that a foundation several of the dancers shyly abstained.
appeared to her the most logical way
This year, Michael Riedel was MC.
to do so.
After the winner was announced,
“It took a year to get it going and awarded flowers and winner’s enacquire the 501C3,” Valerie Taylor- velope, finalists, having been preBarnes said. Once it was made an advised that they were to speak, each
official charity, it could accept tax- said a few words when they were
deductible contributions. To make it called.
easier, they set it up so anyone can
“I originally wanted the winning
make a donation via pay pal at the money to be earmarked for further
official site: www.theclivebarnes- training in their art,” Ms Taylorfoundation.com.
Barnes admitted, “I was voted down
That accomplished, Valerie began by the committee who said most
concentrating on getting grants for young artists need money for their
the foundation. That’s not an easy rent more than anything else, so the
feat in these recession days. Grant money is awarded with no strings.”
givers generally favor very high proValerie is also dedicated to young
file companies, which can add to the people. She has taught dance at Margrant giver’s public profile! Finding tin Luther King High School and La
the right grant writer is a job in itself. Guardia High. One of her favorite
The awards given by the Clive projects was getting these 14 and
Barnes Foundation are designed to 15 year-olds, to go on stage to enjoy
celebrate the work of young actors dancing in public. She is proud that
and dancers, a goal Clive himself the winners of the Clive Barnes Founfavored. Since the idea for the foundation awards went on to greater sucdation did not occur to the widow cesses in the year after they won. “I
until after Clive’s demise, she never think winning helped their careers.”
discussed it with him. I asked if she
Last year’s dance winner was
thought he would be pleased or would Chase Finley, who was subsequently
he have demurred.
promoted to soloist with NYCB dur“I think he’d have fancied it – he ing the year after winning the award.
had an incredible life,” she responded. Ms Arianda, the theater awardee last
Nina Arianda, winner of last year, is now being praised for her
year’s theater award, presented this work in “Venus in Furs.”
year’s award to MJ Rodriguez in the
If their future successes were
off Broadway production of “Rent.” based in part on their having been
(The finalists were Annaleigh Ash- recognized for this award, she has
ford, Jennifer Damiano, and Josh achieved her aim, “The idea for The
Grisetti.)
Clive Barnes Foundation arose out of
Winner of the dance award this my strong desire that my husband,
year, Isabella Boylston, soloist with Clive will not be forgotten and that
American Ballet Theatre, had the his wish to encourage and promote taladded distinction of being presented ented, young artists should continue.
the award by Frederic Franklin, We offer them recognition, encouragea much honored and outstanding ment and financial assistance and I
dance luminary. Finalists here were know that this is something that Clive
Michael Novak for the Paul Taylor would applaud and love.”
Dance Company, Barrington Hinds
It’s something the rest of us can
and Natalie Mackessy, both of the applaud and support as well. I AppreStephen Petronio Company.
ciated Ms Taylor-Barnes frankness
This year’s distinguished selection and glimpses into little known facts
committee consisted, in addition to about Clive Barnes. Too often people
Ms. Taylor-Barnes, of Edward Albee, on the arts mock or demonize critics,
Alexandra Ansanelli, Gwin Job Chin, forgetting they serve as a guide for the
George Dorris, Barbara Hoffman, average viewer and a standard for the
Howard Kissel, Jacques Le Sourd, creative people involved in the arts.
Patrick Pacheco, Damian Woetzel
As a fan of Mr. Barnes myself, I
and Craig Wright.
applaud and laud this foundation and
The awards last year were also held admire the love and dedication of the
at the Walter Reade Theatre at Lin- woman who started it all. We should
coln Center. At that time, each of the all have such devoted other halves.
finalists went on stage and was asked
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Fiction
Just Another Story About Dead Horses
By S. Brady Tucker
Matthew “Pinky” Scalero believed he was a handsome and intelligent man. Such was the absurd power
of belief. In truth, Matt was a man
plagued by adolescent acne and suffered from an impoverished intellect.
In short, he was the type of narcissist
who was prone to believe that looks
of disgust and astonishment from
haggard bar wenches were merely
the disguised and confused gazes of
lust and need. Matt was a convicted
felon twice over, and this mistaken
confidence in his abilities had made
him the stool pigeon of every heist he
had ever had the misfortune of being
involved in.
The Black Lagoon Casino, just
outside Stillwater, Oklahoma, was in
many ways his last chance for employ-
ment in his home state. Tommy Red,
a massive sack of fat and muscle and
innards, sans brain, was an old friend
of Matt’s deceased father, and in homage to Jose Scalero’s memory, offered
his idiot son a job. Matt’s father had
been a kind and integral part of the
Stillwater Pentecostal community,
and was a compassionate supporter
of Gambling Anonymous, among
other diverse recovery communities
in the city. He was god fearing, and
zealous, and had the keen ability to
engender fear of the unknown in any
would be criminal or gambler. He
was loved and he was feared. And in
a moment of rare fatherly pride, he
had named his son after his favorite
disciple in the New Testament. He
had high hopes for Matt, all of which
were all but utterly destroyed by his
son’s third year on earth. Matt’s poor
character was so evident by then, that Mr.
Scalero, for the first
time in his long life,
A TASTE OF TROMPE L’OEIL
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Tommy Red didn’t
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ECORCHE OF THE HORSE
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had ever seen — his mathematical
powers were unmatched. Most of his
customers never even saw the change
from paper money to rolls of nickels
occur. There it just was. It seemed
that Matt had a skill after all. Within
two months, Matt was dressed in
purple satin shirts and slacks, dealing to the big boys at the blackjack
tables, and taking money from them
all — even the cons and counters who
came in occasionally.
Matt soon discovered his second
talent: palming one hundred-dollar
bills into his tight back pocket. Matt
worked for Red for three years, and
consistently had the highest take per
night. However, as time went by, it
was obvious that the take was slowly
decreasing in increments exactly
made up of hundreds. Red had slowly
come to appreciate Matt’s felicity, but
he also knew that he had to face him
with the theft, and if necessary, bury
Matt in his back yard with a mouthful
of his own genitals.
When Red confronted him with his
mashers Sully and Pete in tow, Matt
actually dribbled a bit of piss, and in a
remarkable burst of speed and panic,
ran out the back door and down the
wet streets, never to return.
Over the course of the three years
of employment, Matt had saved one
hundred-twenty thousand dollars
exactly by laying off the booze, heroin,
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and hookers which were a part of his
normal monthly budget of necessary
expenditures, and his savings were
all in hundreds, and all hidden in
assorted places in his apartment. In
some ways, Matt had learned his lesson from his brush with death and/or
extreme torture. With the money he
had saved, Matt created a new line
of slot machines, whose popularity
took off almost immediately. Sure,
Matt fell off the wagon from time to
time, but he never gambled again.
For the first time in his life, he made
an intelligent observation: from the
other side of the table, gambling was
a stupid waste of time and money.
Soon, Matt was rolling in dough
from casinos all over the world, and
through a broker of gambling machines, The Black Lagoon was unwittingly one of his biggest clients. He
made sure he doubled the price when
selling to them though, in an effort to
ease the humiliation of dribbling piss,
and running.
After a period of making enough
money to wipe his ass with hundred
dollar bills (which he actually occasionally did) and drinking seven
thousand dollar bottles of wine (if the
woman sharing it with him was a sure
thing), all the crime and addiction of
his past was a faded memory. Matt
never saw a jail cell again, and never
found himself on the other side of a
botched robbery, but in 1992 he was
killed while fishing in the innards
of one of his machines for a wedged
nickel. He just couldn’t bring himself
to ship the machine while money still
remained inside. The nickel turned
out to be a quarter, but that is neither
here nor there.
(S. Brady Tucker lives in Erie, CO.)
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Music
Mythical Elements in Works
for the Musical Stage: The Outsider
By FRANK BEHRENS
Having considered so far the
Unknown Son of a God (or equivalent) and the trickster, we come to
one last (for now) major mythical
element: the Judas figure. Researchers have found that happy events in
pre-historic Greece were interrupted
by an Outsider, an Ill-Wisher. (This
character is called an “alazon” by
Wylie Sypher in his book “Comedy.”)
It was his purpose to shout curses at
the happy couple or newly instituted
king, or fertility rituals to assure
the next crop. A sort of pre-historic
Scrooge. But the real purpose was to
keep the gods from becoming envious
of the happy humans.
This figure is most familiar in
Shakespeare’s comedies. There is
the aptly named Malvolio in “Twelfth
Night,” the vile Thersites in “Troilus
and Cressida,” the cynical Jacques in
“As You Like It,” and the loud-mouth
critic Lucio in “Measure for Measure.”
Of them and all the rest like them,
only Jacques leaves them peacefully,
in this case to find a “convertite” from
whom “there is much matter to be
heard and learn’d” [Act 5]. Malvolio
leaves, swearing vengeance. And Lucio is “married to a punk.”
So let us start with “Oklahoma!”
(yes, seriously), the plot of which
centers around the question of which
man will bring Laurie to the picnic.
The “good suitor” (i.e., the one who
will marry and produce new life) is
Curly, young and vital. The “bad”
one is Jud Fry, whose overly symbolic
name is 3/5 of Judas and what one
will do in Hell. Whether or not Jud
really loves or merely lusts for Laurie
is beside the point.
Act I, scene 1 contains Jud’s soliloquy “Lonesome room,” a very important insight into his character and one
usually cut from productions, because
(1) they can’t find a good actor who can
also sing or (2) it breaks the light mood
of the show. In re the second reason,
the director implies that Rodgers and
Hammerstein didn’t know how to
write a play. There is no room here to
quote the lyrics, but the loneliness of
this alazon seems to be the strongest
motivation for Jud’s evil acts.
Even when Jud joins Curly in
a very comic number, “Poor Jud is
dead,” the theme is still death. In
fact, I am hard pressed to think of any
other musical comedy or comic opera
in which a character actually dies.
Oh yes, in “Gianni Schicchi” Buono
has died before the opera begins,
so that doesn’t count. And no, Jack
Point “falls insensible,” not dead, at
the final curtain of “The Yeomen of
the Guard.”
Okay. Roberta in “Roberta” does
die on stage; but it is from natural
causes.
The love between Porgy and Bess
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The Original Outsider as Pictured in the Middle Ages
is thwarted by two villains. There
is Crown, who has claims Bess as
his own property and whose death
brings about the crisis to the plot.
But more important is Sportin’ Life,
possibly the slimiest of them all. Not
only does he sell “happy dust” to the
people of Catfish Row, not only does
he mock the Bible’s tales that are
so dear to those people, but he uses
drugs to lure a defenseless Bess to go
with him to New York. (This is NOT
a musical comedy by any means.) It
is quite clear that Porgy, who had
killed Crown, will kill himself in the
hopeless task of going to New York
on his goat cart. (The “happy ending”
provided in the recent production—
better, perversion—of this great work
notwithstanding.)
Of course, the Ultimate Outsider
is the Devil himself. He is called
Applegate in “DamnYankees.” (How
I love these names!) Here the Apple
of Temptation and the Gate to Hell
uses as his double bait the Senators
winning World Series and then Lola
to tempt Joe Hardy from home and
loving wife. That Applegate should
fail is simply part of a long tradition in
tales like this: Goodness will always
triumph.
Now, “Oklahoma!” was based on a
play called “Green Grow the Lilacs”
by Lynn Riggs, but that work itself
was a musical. “Porgy and Bess” was
based on a play (“Porgy” by DuBose
and Dorothy Heyward) that itself was
based on DuBose’s novel. And “Damn
Yankees” was based on a novel by
Douglass Wallop. Still it is the finished
musical products that we have and on
those must we base our conclusions.
A neat twist on all this is J. Pierpont Finch in “How to Succeed in
Business Without Really Trying.”
This musical is based on a satirical
manual of the same name by Shepherd Mead. In this play, Finch himself is both the Trickster and the
Outsider who rises to the top, a sort
of lovable alazon. But the plot needs
a character to keep even Finch from
happiness; and so Bud Frump, the
egomaniacal nephew of the Boss, was
invented. Thwarted himself at the
end of the first half of the show, he
exits declaring, “I shall return.” In the
second half, he returns nastier than
ever and declares, “I have returned.”
(Is it a coincidence that “Bud Frump”
is so close to “Jud Fry”?)
Finch finds love and is redeemed.
Frump remains the “company man.”
And thus do we have a Madison Avenue Mythos for our Modern Times.
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Big Fish, Small Pond
Theatre
By Robert W. Bethune
Let’s do a case study here; a hypothetical one, but one based on observations over the years of a number of
low-level theater professionals.
You start out young. Your mother
or a friend or a teacher puts you into
your first production. Maybe it’s the
school play; maybe it’s a community
theater; maybe it’s a church production; whatever it is, you do it. You’re
expressing yourself. People are paying attention to you. Your visibility
gets a great lift. Your relatives all
come to see the show, possibly including people who never paid much
attention to you before.
You’re hooked.
You keep going. High school, community, maybe local college productions that need young people. You’re
good at it; you’re praised, when you
audition, you get cast.
Now your parents are getting seriously worried about you. At first, they
liked this new interest of yours; they
thought it was good for you to be expressing yourself, taking responsibility, working with others, having contact with adults in a purposeful environment, and so forth. Now they’re
seeing their child poised to decide to
become a theater artist, and visions of
starvation dance in their heads — or,
more likely, visions of long-term support past the age of your adulthood
dance in their heads. (Parents love
their children, but sooner or later,
parents want them gone.)
You take the jump to the next level.
Now you’re a theater major somewhere. You were lucky; somebody,
your guidance counselor, the community theater director, a faculty member at a local college who directed you,
somebody gave you good advice about
what schools to try for, and helped you
get into a good one.
It turns out you are good. Your success continues at this new, higher level. Your skills improve. You mature.
You start understanding that this is
an art form, that the reason to do it
is not the attention it showers on you,
though that craving continues undiminished. You start learning to deal
with your material in depth, to make it
valuable and rewarding to watch you.
You branch out; you start directing
and designing as well as acting.
With the help of your mentors and
peers, you make the jump to actual
paid work. Now you can call yourself a
theater professional. You don’t make
enough money at it to support yourself, but that doesn’t matter — yet.
Now things are getting tough. You
learn what it’s all about to audition
and not get cast, to interview and not
get chosen to direct. But you do work;
you do get paid; your theatrical income starts to be a pretty significant
part of your living. Perhaps you’re
also getting some TV or movie work.
And yes, you’ve moved; you’re now liv-
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Time passes. You’re not making
progress any more. The level of work
you do, and the venues in which you
do it, are stagnant. But you’ve gotten
involved with a small resident professional company; SPT contract, flyover country. They like you; you like
them, even if it is in fly-over country.
Their artistic director retires; they
tap you for the job. You’re ecstatic.
No more day job! Theater now is your
day job!
You move from the big city into
fly-over country. Five years on, that’s
where you are. Ten years on, that’s
where you are.
The audience is stable — read
small. The budget is stable — read
small. Your income is stable — read
small. Are you growing artistically?
Is your work of value? Are you making
a contribution? Are you a respected
artist?
The nagging feeling in the back of
your mind is that the answer to these
questions just might be — “No.” You
meet your local major donors; they
think you’re “just fascinating” — read
freak. You meet your local high school
drama club; they think you’re amazing; you know what they don’t know.
You attend your college reunion; your
classmates praise you for having
toughed it out and stuck by your guns;
they sleep at the Hilton, you sleep at
the Motel 6.
You’ve topped out; you’ve hit your
ceiling.
How do you react?
It took a pretty strong ego to get you
this far. Now you give it free rein, and
there’s no one to stop you. You convince yourself that your theater, unlike all the other theaters like yours,
is special. You have your own way of
doing things that’s better than all the
others. You do the plays others don’t
do. You create work of special value
and importance, which is unfairly ignored. Your judgment, taste and skill
are at the highest level, even if you
choose to stick by the community and
the colleagues you have developed.
You have arrived. You are the big
fish in the small pond. You make sure
you stay that way by making sure
that the people who get in at your theater are those who share your opinion
of you. You make sure that those who
govern your theater appreciate your
fine qualities. You go on, and it all
becomes a habit; you don’t even know
you’re doing it after a while.
Partly this is you, but more importantly it’s the effect of the circumstances of the industry you work in.
You aren’t alone; most of the people
who work in the business are in the
same boat you are, and for the same
reasons, and with about the same
reaction. The industry is so fragmented, so chaotic, so unsuccessful
in paying its own way that almost
all career paths through it are dead
ends, as yours is. It is, essentially, a
lottery at every level; equal talents
and abilities do not rise equally. It
is fundamentally, deeply unhealthy;
unhealthy for the work, unhealthy for
the people. You have come to the end
of your road in it as a big fish in a small
pond, with all the personal damage
that entails, but both those above you
and those below you display the same
symptoms: the highly developed ego,
the high level of denial, the underlying profound frustration.
There have been, and there are,
times and places where your art,
and the other arts as well, did not
function in such an unhealthy way.
It may be possible to change the situation. It may be possible to change
your society to the point where artists
are respected, where viable career
paths exist, where a populace exists
that understands and values artistic
creativity in adulthood. All this may
come to be. It’s probably too late for
you, but some of those young people
you talk to at the high school drama
club, who are so highly impressed
with you, may see it, if enough of the
right sort of work is done.
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Wednesday, February 1
RAYMOND J. STEINER Discussion: “Woodstock the Artists' Colony &
Reading from his novel The Mountain” Lifespring Learning, The Inquiring
Mind Bookstore, Partition and Main Streets, Saugerties NY 845-246-5775
at/ around/ beyond: Fluxus at Rutgers, 1962-1984 The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University 71 Hamilton Street New Brunswick NJ 732-932-7237
charge (thru April 1) http://www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu/exhibitions/?id=101
Open Small Works Exhibition National Association of Women Artists,
Inc. 80 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1405 New York NY 212-675-1616 free (thru Feb 28)
http://www.thenawa.org
Gallery Talk -Surface Tension: works by Ayami Aoyama &
Florence Moonan Mercer County Community College The Gallery at Mercer
County Community College 1200 Old Trenton Rd. West Windsor NJ 609-570-3589
7pm free (thru Feb 9) www.mccc.edu/community_gallery
Thursday, February 2
Nature Calls: Paintings by Callie Danae Hirsh Suffern Free
Library 210 Lafayette Ave. Suffern NY 845-357-1237 free (thru Feb 28) www.suffernfreelibrary.org
Friday, February 3
Separation Anxiety Pelham Art Center 155 Fifth Avenue Pelham NY 914736-2525 Opening Reception and Free All-Age Art Workshop 6:30-8pm free (thru
Mar 31) pelhamartCenter.org
Dewey Mountain Benefit Exhibition and silent auction to benefit local ski area Adirondack Artists’ Guild 52 Main St. Saranac Lake NY 518-891-2615
Opening 5 - 7 pm free (thru Mar 4) adirondackartistsguild.com/
Dan Christoffel presents Abraham Linclon & Walt Whitman Huntington Arts Council, Inc. Main Street Petite Gallery 213 Main St. Huntington NY
631-271-8423 free (thru Mar 19) huntingtonarts.org
Saturday, February 4
David Hayes Paintings and Sculpture/Group Video Show curated by
Greg Slick Garrison Art Center 23 Depot Square on Garrison’s Landing Garrison
NY 845-424-3960 free (thru Feb 26) www.garrisonartCenter.org
Annual Erotica Exhibition Tivoli Artists Co-op 60 Broadway Tivoli NY
845-757-2667 Opening Reception & Fundraising Party 7-9pm. 8pm performances.
Over 18 please, donate (thru Feb 26) www.tivoliartistsco-op.com
Nature’s Bounty at Art-trium Gallery Huntington Arts Council, Inc. Arttrium Gallery 25 Melville Park Road Melville NY 631-271-8423 Opening Reception
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CENTRAL PARK AND THE CITY
They say the towers of New York scrape the sky.
They do pierce the clouds, but Central Park’s green
lights are low on the lawn; granite crouches
all fours on the ground, and lagoons reflect on the fact
that clouds float on pools that bounce high as the sky
from a sink as low as the blue in my jeans.
Thus, heaven may stoop to conquer a faux pond,
and cement can stack up to tickle the airways.
The Park genuflects before such altitudes
of aggregate. It stays quiet. In summer, it tans.
It pops the dogeared question: Are sapiens
made out of muscle or mind? This cloud-spiking Merlin
keeps upping the ante of his sorceries.
The Park’s the guts of this rebar-boned body.
It centers the urban senses’ five-in-one
and doubles as the Metro’s solar plexus.
Breathe in what the leaves breathe out, and both shoddy
and shiny songs emerge, and Christ! Mon, the moon
rising over this dancer spangled at midnight!
It’s not romantic exactly; it’s more like phallic.
May you have a Healthy, Prosperous,
Creative, Peaceful, & Joy-filled New Year.
Andrew H. Oerke
—Miami, Fl
Just One More
Fiction
By Edgar BEE
I checked my watch — fifteen
past one already. Some of the other
regulars at the Magnan tavern must
be wondering whatever happened to
me, I thought, that I had not been
around last night or this morning. I’m
usually there by nine on a Saturday
morning — ten at the latest.
Some of my co-workers had asked
me to join them for a beer after work,
yesterday. They had all gone home
after just a few, but I had stayed, and
gone bar hopping after a few more. I
had no idea at what time I had made
it home, but it had to have been after
three, when I last checked the time.
I came to the Saint Patrick street
entrance and was about to step across
the open doorway when I spotted
Natasha, coming up the sidewalk,
waving.
Something instantly twisted inside of me. God, how that woman
turned me on, with her trim figure,
and those phosphorescent, jade green
eyes.
She gave the impression that the
attraction between us was two ways,
but I could never seem to work anything out with her.
“Hi,” I said when she came up to
me. “Where are you headed?”
“On the canal; it’s such a nice day.”
The Lachine Canal — a more than
nine-mile long, man made river, with
bike trails and walkways on both
sides — stretched along the other side
of the street from where we stood.
“It really is beautiful,” I agreed.
“How would you like some company?”
“I’d love it.”
“Let’s go in here for just one and
then I’ll go with you,” I suggested.
“The last time I went in there with
you for one, I couldn’t drag you out
after more than a dozen.”
“Just one; I promise.”
She shrugged. “Okay, but remember — one.”
“What would you like?” I asked her
when the waiter came to our table.
“I don’t want anything.”
“Come on, just one beer,” I prompted. “Or a glass of wine.”
“No, I just finished eating and I
don’t feel like anything.”
“Get me two drafts,” I instructed
the waiter.
“I thought you said just one,” she
remarked.
“Two drafts is one,” I said. “Nobody
orders less than two drafts at a time;
they come in pairs.”
God but she was beautiful, with
long silken black hair that dropped
weightlessly over her shoulders. How
I longed to take her in my arms and
wrap her natural red lips with mine.
“You look really gorgeous, like
always,” I said after my first beer.
“How pleasing to the heart just to be
with you.”
“I like being with you too, but not
here. Now come on; finish your beer,
so we can get going.”
I drained it. “Just one more and
we’re on our way; I promise,” I said.
“You said just one.”
“Yes, I know, but I was thirsty. I
was downtown last night and drank
more than my usual. Just one more;
I give you my word.”
MY TAG
ef
DORA MAAR
I have often wanted to tattoo my federal
ID prison number on my arm.
It would be so Dachau.
But I didn’t suffer in prison camp.
I liked it.
I wrote five hours a day and worked out three.
I was in Fighter’s Writer’s Camp.
I can no longer remember my number.
I hardly remember the camp.
The prison camp.
Not the concentration camp.
In another twenty years I’ll no longer
Remember me.
I will be dead.
I will be forgotten.
The “I” who will have forgotten will be dead.
still backing away. “Nice seeing you;
have a good day.”
I had the one
more, and then sat there debating
with myself. I really wanted to be
with her. But I still had time. She
wouldn’t be walking fast, admiring
the passing pleasure boats…the tall,
leafy trees. I still had lots of time to
catch up with her.
But after that one I wanted another, and then another. And finally
I knew it was too late. I could never
catch up with her now.
I had never felt lonelier. Or sorrier.
Or so much like life was speeding by
me while I sat here, missing it all.
Why hadn’t I made more of an effort to talk her into staying, I asked
myself again and again? And failing
that, why hadn’t I gone with her? We
could have walked awhile, like she
wanted, and later I could have taken
her to that nightspot on Crescent. She
would have loved that, I was sure.
After a few more beers I moved in
with some of my buddies, which did
little to relieve me of my loneliness.
I had that feeling of being alone in a
crowd.
God, why hadn’t I gone with her?
Next time, I would, I promised
myself.
“Ted, what’s the matter?” someone
at the table said to me. “You look like
a mutt who’s lost his master.”
I forced a smile, though I felt more
like crying.
“I’m okay,” I lied.
(Edgar Bee (Nom de plume) lives
in Montreal Qc, Canada).
“You stay here and drink, then;
I’m going.”
“No, come on, just this one and
we’ll go,” I pleaded. “It won’t take me
long, I promise.”
“You better mean it this time.”
“I give you my word.”
“Two more drafts,” I told the
waiter. “You’re sure you don’t want
anything?” I asked Natasha.
“Nothing for me,” she said to the
waiter.
I was starting to relax, telling her
about the beautiful little nightspot I’d
found last night on Crescent Street,
and the great Irish band they’d had
playing. “We can go tonight, if you
want,” I invited. “You’ll love it, I
know.”
“Come on, finish that beer and let’s
get out of here.”
“Just one more and then we’ll go
for sure, okay?” I said and raised my
empty glass without waiting for an
answer, getting the waiter’s attention.
“No, I’m leaving,” she said decisively, getting up.
“Come on, just this one and I’ll go
with you; I promise.”
“No, you had me waste my day
a few Saturdays ago, waiting while
you had more than a dozen last ones,
finally getting me to join you and
getting me drunk too. Not today. I’m
going.” She started backing away.
“Well, tell you what; I’ll have one
more and catch up with you on the
canal. You’ll be headed towards the
Old Port, I guess?”
“Yea, sure,” she said skeptically,
LOVE POEMS
I don’t understand them
She shrugged. Who; what
Are they about?
My dear, he whispered, they
Are not about.
They are because of.
Tom Murray
—San Diego, CA
David Lawrence
—New York City, NY
Frequently I can’t resist.
I rise at two A.M. and go to my library
Where I dream the night to dawn.
Tonight I find a volume on the art of Dora Maar,
Picasso’s mistress, his weeping woman.
Her art is Picasso’s art.
Picasso had insinuated himself into her bone
As would a virulent bacillus.
She fought his infection by stealing his image,
Painting him with dark malignant eyes,
Those daggers that had peeled away at her flesh
Revealing the dark solitude
That wept existential tears.
In none of her portraits do we see Picasso weep.
He leaves her without a gift
Except for a brush that paints his image
On the canvas of a heartbreak.
CROW DOG
AT A FALL FESTIVAL
Stroked by sky of pooled blue,
fingered by trees freckled with light,
we lean into one another,
touch heads and hands,
do not mention
the other hours,
the tasks waiting in an avalanche
that trembles at the ready.
Music eddies, murmurs,
laces this time up so we
can carry it with us tomorrow.
Carol Hamilton
—Midwest City, OK
Beyond the Eye of the spirit time
beyond the dawn and the vision sign
there among the sage and cedar pine
we come to the realm where the veil is nigh
we come to the world where Crow Dog lies
There to find the smoky vision quest
with myself the un-invited, un-intended guest
we come to what is all and best
to dance in mind with the eternal need
to stand at the cliff-side, and to see
the lost spirits dancing at wounded knee.
William R. Ford Jr.
—Potterville, MI
John P. Driscoll, M.D.
—Falmouth, ME
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